Single brain metastasis: Radiosurgery alone compared with radiosurgery plus up-front whole-brain radiotherapy

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2980-2985

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Hornung, Dagmar ^b   Veninga, Theo ^c   Schild, Steven E ^d   Gliemroth, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

local control; radiosurgery; single brain metastasis; survival; whole brain radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CELL; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MONOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84861329710     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26612     Document Type: Article

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